Z100 - New York's #1 Hit Music Station WHTZ

Out of 1,481 entries in the United States, this one ranks 18. The upper quarter of a national list is an interesting place to be: well known enough to have accumulated opens, not so well known that it is the station everybody already had.

Z100 - New York's #1 Hit Music Station WHTZ has 92 recorded opens in the public directory, which is a real number by the standards of this data set. Most entries never reach double figures, so a count at this level means the stream has been found and played repeatedly by people using directory clients rather than the broadcaster's own site.

Iheart is the station's own leading tag and no other entry in the United States uses it that way. Worth reading as self-description: the directory takes tags as broadcasters type them and does not reconcile them.

The audio comes from stream.revma.ihrhls.com, and 176 other stations in the United States are served from the same address. That is a streaming platform carrying many broadcasters rather than a station running its own server, which is worth knowing for a practical reason: when a platform has a bad night, a whole block of the United States' listing stops answering at once and nothing is wrong with any of the stations in it.